Culture and Performance
The Challenge of Ethics, Politics and Feminist Theory
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2007
224 pages
978-1-84788-544-9 (ISBN)
Description
Cultural theory has taken a 'performative turn', shifting its focus from the textual nature of the world to how the social world is narrated, its subjects are subjected and its relations are ritually enacted. The rise of performativity in cultural theory - spearheaded in many ways by feminist theory - has profound implications for the way we think about ethics and politics. Indeed, as it concerns all aspects of 'difference', it reshapes the ways we think about the continuities and interruptions of social life itself.Culture and Performance explores the development and direction of the notion of performativity. It interrogates the idea of subjectivity, the possibility of ethics and, beyond this, it explores new ways of thinking political imaginations and possibilities. It traces the implications of the concept, and assesses the critique that is emerging from a renewed interest in creativity.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
bibliography, index
ISBN-13
978-1-84788-544-9 (9781847885449)
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Person
Vikki Bell is Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is author of Interrogating Incest and Feminist Imagination and editor of Perfomativity and Belonging.
Content
* Preface
* The Promise of Performativity: Theory and/as Political Ethic
* Genealogy, Generation and Partiality
* Negotiating the Non-Ethical
* Performative Politics
* Rhetorical Figures: On 'Dangerous Thought', Fear and Politics
* Performativity Challenged? Creativity and the Return of Interiority
